All the different ways we know the world all come from the brain, and they all depend on each other to make sense.
From Richard Powers
I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a new design.
For me, university was just awful because it was closing one door after the other of all these candy shops of professional possibilities.
I used to work for 12 or 14 hours at a time but the digital age has made such happy immersions almost impossible.
I keep a quotes journal - of every sentence that I've wanted to remember from my reading of the past 30 years.
The desire to live in our imagination is driven by this suspicion that we're disembodied sensibilities cobbled into our bodies. That idea has infused most of human thought since the very beginning.
I'd like, each time out as a writer, to reinvent who I am and what I'm doing. That's one of the great pleasures and rewards of the occupation.
I would say the flip side to my fascination with systems is a fascination with components. So many of my books are dialogues between little and big.
The Midwest is such a tabula rasa.
I like to travel and connect.
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